[00:17:30] figure in sensory deprivation research oh and zubac passed away in 1974 due to an apparent suicide by Drowning fun stuff he did things like put himself into a a giant sphere white Sphere for two weeks with no sensory uh input whatsoever these kinds of things were really interesting to me because they seemed to facilitate a more likely outter body experience or or a [00:18:00] heightened form of sigh so then I started to think well can I create a form of immersion that would also suggest being out of the body there was a central platform in a steel structure the person would lay on this and then there would be a hypnotic induction so initially I was working with hypnosis but what I started to do with sound was I started experimenting with different sound patterns and then I started doing research into things like Flow State and realized that the pre-state to an out [00:18:30] body experience is probably the key to the experience basically started putting all of these things together and um I still work with all kinds of approaches that basically use all of the senses because I think if we want to have a complete Out of Body Experience then we need to use something that kind of shuts down all of the extra information coming into us through our ordinary senses so that the out body senses and ceptions can take over essentially a lot of these
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[00:19:00] um out of- body experiences all seem to like the one commonality is the incredibly relaxed State whether that's through exhaustion whether that's through sleep whether that's through Cardiac Arrest I guess um or whether that's through just natural meditation uh it seems like your body has to be shut down yeah that's exactly how I would put it [Music] [00:19:30] now because I've uploaded this to YouTube a lot of people have shown interest and people who have never had an experience don't even know where to start and obviously you know they don't want to pay a lot of them don't want to pay you know thousands of dollars to go on a retreat uh not even knowing if that's going to work for them or like before they invest anything what's the best advice you can give them to have their first Out of Body Experience um don't jump around in terms of techniques I would say don't even worry too much about techniques focus on the pre-state [00:20:00] the state that you get into prior to having the out Body Experience like the vibrations is the most common but there are others like a void State um and some people get buzzing noises and clicking and things like that sensory deprivation like I also mentioned but the the most common mistake that people make is they go online they look at 20 30 different techniques and they jump from one to the other like every day trying like 20
[00:20:30] different techniques and then it doesn't work because they're not getting into that pre-state so the other advice I would say is work consistently pick a technique and work consistently with it but like I say focus on the on the pre-state and consistently uh you mean uh every day twice a day once a week what's uh what's consistency um ideally at least about three times a week I would say uh I I think I've taken up enough of your time time uh today Graham [00:21:00] this has been such an enlightening conversation and I I literally am I'm looking forward to reading your work I'm going to purchase your books um is there is there something you want to tell my audience there's a new version of my second book coming out actually but my f my first book has is hasn't changed that's more my personal experience is the first book but not it's not it's not scientific though yeah I think people would uh would like a bit of both anyway is I think that's what this whole